ActivityOwner.Com – Getting Things Done with MindManager

IN Part 5 of the series we enumerated some of the issues that emerged for ResultsManager users with the new ways that MindManager 9 handles task dates. One of the main issues (which I didn't recognize at that time) was that the way duration is now handled in MindManager was causing ResultsManager to add due [...]

When we left off in Part 4, we were getting started on the initial next actions of a "funnel timeline" project plan for addressing task date issues in MindManager 9: The goal of this series of posts is to both work through the MindManager 9 task date issue and to attempt to provide a working [...]

In order to celebrate the recent release of MindManger 9, the MindManager Setup Tips page on wiki.activityowner.com has been updated. There are a few legacy items that may apply more to MindManager 7 and 8. The list of 13 tips for ResultsManager and GyroQ setup has also been updated. Click here to visit the top [...]

In Part 2, we had generated a rough outline of actions to be taken to address issues with Task dates in MindManager 9: I left off at that point with a "Translate brainstorm into action plan @maps", which pops up in my daily action dashboard as a reminder to return to the project. When I [...]

A few months back when I polled readers on "What is the next action for activityowner.com", the two leading responses were "Tutorials on writing macros" and "examples of how I use the tools". I figured coping with the current MindManager Task Date issue provides a good case study to start to address the later. In [...]

As regular readers know, my Saturday morning hobby for the past few years has been to develop and share new ways of using MindManager for implementing David Allen's Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology. The past several months I have been more focused on quietly using the tools rather than procratinating by tweaking them, but the [...]

Xiahung commented on the blog this week that MindManager 9 was adding task durations as "end date-start date" and causing unexpected date-related behavior in his ResultsManager dashboards. I hadn't noticed issues in the pre-release version I'd done some cursory testing on, but Nick Duffill has now determined that changes were made in the final release [...]

Reviewing my ResultsManager review dashboard this morning I found just a couple of projects related to my "blog" area and a long list of someday/maybes. I thought it might be useful to solicit reader guidance on where it would be most valuable for you to focus. Basically I'm wondering whether to focus on discussing, enhancing, [...]